7:24 PM,
Mar. 15, 2014

Despite upheaval over the ownership, Wausau Paper's headquarters, seen here on Thursday, remains in Kronenwetter.

Written by

Bob Dohr
Daily Herald Media

A local paper company that provided hundreds of family-supporting jobs to generations of workers in central Wisconsin now has fewer than 50 people working in the region, and even those jobs could be in jeopardy.

Recent years have seen Wausau Paper shut down its mills in Brokaw and Brainerd, Minn. and sell facilities in Mosinee and Rhinelander, all while being embroiled in a proxy battle that could shift the balance of power in the company's leadership.

All that remains in central Wisconsin today of a once-dominant local employer founded in 1899 is a corporate headquarters building on Paper ...